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MARIA BOCCI LA MOINETTE. 233
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climbing Alpine precipices , and in crossing the " perilous lake , " *' in order to offer the inestimable boon of educationnot merely to
, children , but to young persons of both sexes . There were as yet no school _buildings in of the three communes ; nor at Chenit a
cureor residence for any the minister , till nearly sixteen years afterwards , . He was obliged to live at Lieu , coming on Sundays and
Thursdays to officiate in a very small chapel erected with much more difficulty of mainl the tw y enty by - contributions seven pastors from enumerated other places by Monsieur ; and one Nicole , if not ,
from , , whose chronicle many of these details are drawn , experienced ¦ the within melanchol its circumscribed y fate of being walls . drowned Her ambulatory whilst proceeding schools to were do duty held
in the open air , so that all who chose might profit by them ; and in neration she the was valley , paid ( a very b but y those small in the only proportion coarse who black could , ) not bread afford in money of to the g , ive village almost her any , unknown made remu of
-, barley or oatmeal , seldom baked oftener tha , n four times a year—~ in skim milk , and the thin hard cheese of the country . She had no
settled habitation excepting- for three or four months in the very heart of winterwhen she fixed herself permanently at Chenit ; where ,
necessities during its , of rigors the , ensuing in a small year , low by -roofed spinning cot , fine she thread prepared , in for which the
she was an adept , and on the sale of which she depended for her peasant ' s garband the supply of such trifling articles of domestic
, use as were attainable only through the medium of money . The winters in the vicinity of the Jura Alps are excessively
severe , and her limited resources could oppose but slender barriers to their inclemency ; yet this stern , desolate season proved , perhaps ,
and the happ bitter iest cold period . She of was her year once , more despite in its her dreariness own home and . Habits darkness of
study under her father had no doubt engendered a taste for reading . Her books—Ms books—r-were around her ! A lonely woman so
nurtured and educated would instinctively seek and find in them the inning companionshi -wheelwhose p and gentle solace denied humlike to her the everywhere soft murmuring else . voice Her
harassed of sp some old ear , sympathizing distracted , by friend so many , , must discordant have been tones music and noises to her ,
was also there . Garnered up in that small dwelling , her only ark of refuge , was all she could call hers ! This chosen sanctuary
appears to have been uninvaded , save for a few hours in the long dark evenings , when such . of her adult pupils as chose to revive the recollection of lessons somewhat obliterated from their memory
during the autumn , ( a period that in th , e rural districts of Switzerland confers a certain degree of liberty on all scholars above
ments * So , termed and pre in valen several ce of ancient sudden charters gusts of from wind its , arising profundity * from , s hollows teep embank in the
lac wood , " - is clad a common mountains mode that of border expression it on . nearly every side . u _Yu le peril chi
VOX / . III . S
Maria Bocci La Moinette. 233
MARIA BOCCI LA MOINETTE . 233
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/17/
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